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Elizabeth Yarnell Killien, MD

Elizabeth Yarnell Killien, MD

Elizabeth Killien, MD is an attending physician in the Pediatric ICU. She earned her MD from Dartmouth Medical School in 2011. She completed her residency in General Pediatrics and fellowship in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at the University of Washington. She is undergoing additional training in pediatric trauma research at the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in the Pediatric Injury Research Training Program, and completing her Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She is a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators, and American Thoracic Society. Her scholarly work focuses on organ failure after traumatic injury and long-term outcomes after critical illness.

Early Death From Pediatric Severe Sepsis: Still a Problem and a Mandate for Future Clinical Research.
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Pediatric critical care medicine : a journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies
, 2017 Sept.
: 18(9)891-892

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